I hope this will help. I have one thing left to do at work today and I cannot get to it until I vent about this headline from boingboing:
I guarantee that William Strunk, Jr.’s zombie is crawling out of its grave right now in pursuit of Xeni Jardin‘s BRAAAAIIINNNSSSS!*
Just to make me happy (and delay the zombie apocalypse), let’s get rid of the words that are strongly implied by other words in this title. Continue reading “Giant swarming schools of squid cause zombie apocalypse”
Today is the 153rd anniversary of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Continue reading “Natural Selection Day”
The Next Generation. That is what it looks like. A table sized, touchscreen microscope view screen. I could use one of these bad boys.
According to a preliminary study in the Journal of the American Medical Association – “Effects of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Signal Exposure on Brain Glucose Metabolism” (Volkow et al. 2011) – the radio frequency emissions from cell phones can cause detectable changes in the metabolism of a specific brain region.
In healthy participants and compared with no exposure, 50-minute cell phone exposure was associated with increased brain glucose metabolism in the region closest to the antenna. This finding is of unknown clinical significance.
While there has been a great deal of speculation in the media regarding the mechanism of this effect, we need to dedicated some thought to whether there is actually an effect that requires explanation.
1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
– Genesis 1:1-2 (King James Version – KJV)
And then he made humans, at least twice-ish[1]. Embarrassingly, he seemed to only make one family, which meant that when it came time for Adam and Eve’s son, Cain[2], to go looking for a bride, he was not going to go looking very far from home.
If you are not descended from a line of Egyptian pharaohs, now is the time to say “EWWW!” and start wondering why all of humanity doesn’t look like Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel. Continue reading “In the Beginning. . .or Icky Genesis Genetics”
The Finch and Pea 